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The following video-game-related
items are so rare, you probably haven't heard of any of them.
They are all real, there is only a handful in the world
of each, and you can NEVER HAVE THEM, because of the
wallet-stopping combination of being both expensive AND totally
useless. You can look, though. But you can't ever touch.
There are a lot of gray-colored items this time; try not to get
too depressed.

BONUS NEWS! Remember the Final
Fantasy VII cutscene DVD featured in the third edition of this series?
It got the attention of an FF forum, which in turn got
the attention of someone willing to buy the disc, who
THEN did the honorable thing and dumped the contents to YouTube
in high quality! Check 'em out!

BOOTLEG "WINDOWS XP FOR
FAMICOM"

Finally, I
can upgrade my Famicom from Windows 98

eBay Price: $99.99

1994 NINTENDO CONSUMER
ELECTRONICS SHOW PRESS KIT

And what a kit it is! Glorifying the
Super NES's comeback and Donkey Kong Country with
press releases, glossy brochures and even slides

The Famicom Box was featured in an earlier TYCEH,
and it was mentioned how hard to find its
cartridges were. Well, here's some....got a
grand?

eBay Price: $999.99

MODIFIED N64 WITH SCART
OUTPUTS

"SCART
Outputs"? That means the picture will be
much sharper...that is, if you can find a port on
your TV for it

It also comes with a Flash cart
containing every N64 game. That's good! But it's
the Japanese model, and the adapter to play it on
a set outside of Japan is not included. That's
bad

eBay Price: $372.33

GAME BOY COLOR SEWING MACHINE
ADD-ON

One of the rarest
Game Boy Color carts ever created worked in
tandem with a Singer sewing machine

eBay Price: $600

DS DOWNLOAD STATION KIOSK

This kiosk will not let you download the
games themselves. You need another DS and a
separate card to do that, as explained earlier

eBay Price: $129.99

VGA-LAMINATED MINT-IN-BOX COPY
OF "FRIDAY THE 13th" FOR NES

eBay Price: $229.99
Actual value in terms of game quality: 10¢

SEGA-BRANDED DISPLAY CASE

It's hard to make out, but there is a
SEGA logo embossed near the top left corner, and
another SEGA logo printed in white on the glass

Think of how many Stadium
Events carts you could buy for this price

eBay Price: $25,000.00

SONIC ADVENTURE: LIMITED
EDITION

A demo version of
Sonic Adventure meant for Dreamcast kiosks

Who knows how much it would be
worth if the Blockbuster guy hadn't written
AAAAALLLLL over it

eBay Price: $79.99

GIRL PUSHING GLASSES UP HER
NOSE: THE GAME

It's
actually a port of "Radio Allergy," an
arcade schmup from Japan

The home console release was
identical because it used the NAOMI board, the
same circuitry Sega used in the Dreamcast

eBay Price: $149.80

WORKING ORIGINAL
MODEL APPLE II

From 1978,
an original Apple with miniscule 24K memory,
Integer Basic and a cassette player instead of a
disc drive

In the heyday of Apples you
couldn't get ten bucks for this thing. This is
how much it's worth now

eBay Price: $6,100.00 (and $200
shipping)

APPLE 80'S COMPANY PENS

Here are some pens to go with your new
$6000 Apple

The seller lived in Hawaii and
offered a free package of macadamia nuts with the
shipment. So there was that too

eBay Price: $300.00

JAPANESE ORIGINAL METROID
POSTER

A promo for the
game's original release on the Famicom Disk
System

eBay Price: Could not sell
(how?)

"MARIO" GAME

This is actually a Nintendo World
Championships cart that somebody tore the cover
off of and "helpfully" relabeled. It's
not a gold one, but it's a valuable gray one
because of its well-known injury

eBay Price: $5,000

PROTOTYPE FOR SPACE INVADERS
ON THE SNES

Let me put it
this way: this version of Space Invaders was one
of the last games to be released for the SNES,
and it was during a time when the budget for a
SNES game was pitifully small. Space Invaders is
literally it; there are no graphical or sound
enhancements. They really mean "the original
game"

Did you ever know about this? A
combination Nintendo machine-slash-video editor,
manufactured by Sharp

The machine came with a stylus
and a keyboard. It was for adding subtitles to
videos, but could also add the same text to
Famicom game footage. Useful for reviewers

It is also the only Famicom (or
NES for that matter) with an S-Video connection,
the sharpest hookup possible

eBay Price: $315.00

CLUB NINTENDO "MARIO
& LUIGI" SOUNDTRACK CD

I could fill up this entire page just
with cool things the Japanese Club Nintendo got
that we never did

eBay Price: $45.00

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG IN A
HAWAIIAN SHIRT HOLDING A WATERMELON PLUSHIE

It totally works. It just does

eBay Price: $129.99

MEGA MAN 4 SIGNED BY KEIJI
INAFUNE

Keiji Inafune is
the creator of Mega Man. If you didn't know that,
you're either a gaming newbie or a current
representative at Capcom

eBay Price: $400

ONE PS3

A Japanese exclusive, but you knew that

eBay Price: $500

CHRONO CROSS PREVIEW DISCS

It is unknown if these differ in any way
from the final retail version (other than the way
they look). They are only playable on blue
debug-model Playstations

eBay Price: $489.99

PRISONER OF WAR PREVIEW DISC

What's so special about this one? THIS
preview is for a game that never came out

The seller happened to have a
debug PS2, which he made these screenshotsfrom

eBay Price: $229.99

ATARI JAGUAR MULTICART KIT

A recent development in the collector's
market has been the Flash Cart. This is a shell
you insert an SD card (or in this case, burned
ROM chips) into, which has been filled with every
game that came out for that system. Then you can
play everything a classic console had to offer,
on the original machine

So if you have the Jaguar
Multicart, you can play all....the...great
games....the Jaguar had

eBay Price: $100

"THE JOY OF SEX" FOR
PHILLIPS CD-I

Um. What's
the gameplay like?

eBay Price: $50

NINTENDO 64 DISK DRIVE
DEVELOPER'S UNIT

If there
are alternate versions of all the other consoles,
there would have to be one for the 64DD, but we
thought we'd never see it

The cosmetic difference is the
blue entry slot. The 64DD has only ten games.
Maybe someone can make more now

eBay Price: $5000.00

"BEST OF EBTV
DEMONSTRATION DVD"

"EBTV"
was the constant annoying loop of commercials and
sassy people that Electronics Boutique played on
TVs near the ceiling of every store they owned

They were soon bought out by
GameStop, who proceeded to do the same thing

eBay Price: $30.00

PS VITA KIOSK

To give you an idea of how badly Vita
sold, this kiosk was disconnected and put up for
sale less than two years after its release

Nevertheless, it's a very nice
kiosk. The price is nice too, but that's because
it was local pickup only, in Missouri

eBay Price: $120.00

37 VGA-LAMINATED COPIES OF
KILLER INSTINCT

"Once
I preserved one, I just couldn't stop!"

eBay Price: $3,709.39

LEGEND OF ZELDA KEY HOLDER

Not an official product, but it should
be

Over 500 had been made and sold
by the time this snapshot was taken. I'm envious
I didn't think of it

eBay Price: $12

EVERYTHING

Michael Thommason, (former) owner of
what the Guinness Book of World Records
identified as the largest video game collection
on Earth at over eleven thousand titles, sold the
entire lot for three-quarters of a million
dollars

That's it; TYCEH has jumped the
shark. Anything we show from this point will pale
in comparison to this. It's impossible to go any
higher